Lynn Arner, a WCSA member and Associate Professor in the Department of English at Brock University, was interviewed by James M. Van Wyck about her work studying how class backgrounds and gender shape the careers of English professors. The interview was published today by Inside Higher Ed.
In the article, Van Wyck writes that, “Arner’s work complements a growing body of research examining the clunky apparatuses by which higher education seeks to diversify the professoriate.” Read more here.
Nancy MacLean‘s new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, has sparked an “uproar” according to a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. She read to a standing-room only audience at The Regulator Bookshop in Durham to kickoff her book tour. For more information, you can listen to interviews at Democracy Now! and at NPR’s WUNC 91.5.
Thanks to all those who voted in this year’s election and those who agreed to be nominated. We would also like to offer a special thanks to Maria Dokes for tabulating the ballots.
Here’s our line-up of officers for 2017-2018:
Steering Committee:
President: Terry Easton, University of North Georgia
Past-President: Michele Fazio, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
President-Elect: Cherie Rankin, Heartland Community College
Secretary: Courtney Maloney, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Treasurer: Ken Estey, Brooklyn College
At-large Members:
Scott Henkel, University of Wyoming
Colby King, Bridgewater State University
Asia Muhammad, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Christine Walley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Elections Committee:
Jeremy Baker, Columbus State Community College, University of New Mexico, and Ashford University
Jackie Gabriel, Western State Colorado University
Lisa Kirby, Collin College
Working-Class Academics Section:
Chair: Mara Fridell, University of Manitoba
Chair-Elect: Debbie Warnock, Bennington College
Past-Chair: Allison Hurst, Oregon State University
Be sure to submit your ballots for the WCSA 2017 Elections. The deadline is Monday, July 17.
The second issue of the Journal of Working-Class Studies is now available.
Be sure to submit your ballots for the WCSA 2017 Elections. The deadline is Monday, July 17.
Lynn Arner, an Associate Professor of English at Brock University and a WCSA member, won a multi-year grant for her project “Working-Class Women in the Professoriate,” a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This project involves conducting an extensive survey of English professors in Canada and the U.S., a survey designed to uncover the ways in which working-class female academics negotiate a different terrain in the profession than their working-class male counterparts and than middle-class colleagues, male or female. One of the goals of the survey is to document tracking in hiring patterns in the professoriate, tracking according to gender, class, and institutional pedigree. Lynn plans to publish her survey results in a pair of articles and will also use the survey material in the book she is currently writing on gender and class in the professoriate.
Nancy MacLean, William Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and former president of the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA), has published a new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.
“This book is mesmerizing. Rarely have I encountered a work that speaks to such significant issues, with evidence rooted in conclusive new sources. In clear prose, MacLean reveals how a public once committed to social responsibility and egalitarian values became persuaded that only an unregulated free market could protect ‘liberty’ and ‘choice.’ Because of this, our once cherished democracy is now subject to attack. Everyone who wants to understand today’s confrontational politics should read this important book, now.”
—Alice Kessler-Harris, author of In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America
“It’s happening: the subversion of our democratic system from within. How did the political Right do it? Nancy MacLean tells the long-overlooked story of the political economist who developed the playbook for the Koch brothers. James McGill Buchanan merged states rights’ thinking with free market principles and helped to fashion the inherently elitist ideology of today’s Republican Party. Professor MacLean’s meticulous research and shrewd insights make this a must-read for all who believe in government ‘by the people.’”
—Nancy Isenberg, author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Congratulations to this year’s award winners, especially to the recipients of the WCSA Young Scholar and Activists Fellowships!
